Discover cowboys, Indians, and the wild adventures and battles that happened here not so long ago. Course covers important historical figures and Wild West tales as well as showings of important classic Western films. Class concludes with a day trip to Tombstone to visit all the museums and exhibits as well as eat some cowboy grub.

The American Cowboy, Will James
Myths and Legends of North America, Scott Leonard
Buffalo Bill, Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Tree in the Trail, Holling C. Holling
North American Indian Tales, W.T. Larned
American Indian Mythology, Evelyn Wolfson
Presenting Buffalo Bill, Candace Fleming
Over the Santa Fe Trail, William Barclay Napton
Favorite North American Indian Legends, Philip Smith
Remember the Alamo, Paul Robert Walker
Lewis and Clark, Dayton Duncan
The Old West, Stephen Hyslop
Doctors of the Old West, Robert Karolevitz
Wild and Woolly: An Encyclopedia of the Old West, Denis McLoughlin
Accounts of Animals Along the Santa Fe Trail, Phyllis Morgan

Western icon portrait
locale map or infographic
southwest animal infographic
famous battle infographic
handicraft or recipe illustrated guide
Indian legend illustrated summary

Pueblo pottery
Western leather braiding
Mexican tin craft

Lone Ranger
The Rifleman
Fistful of Dollars
Stagecoach
Old Yeller
Hondo
High Noon

Backyard chuckwagon barbecue
A day in Tombstone, AZ